I write free software. My free software has a "donate" link that goes to the PayPal donation page. The idiots at PayPal froze my account since I couldn't prove 501(c) exemption (which I don't have - and more to the point, never claimed to!) and insist that it's "illegal" to receive donations unless you're a registered non-profit with 501(c) IRS clearance.
Read more »PayPal attacks free software donations
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State of Firefox 4.0 on GNU+Linux
http://www.tildehash.com –
"So we've probably all seen the mock-ups for Firefox 4.0 by now, but has any of it been implemented? In the Windows version, yes. On the GNU+Linux version, partially. And it looks like it's going to stay that way. I'm going to show you what's different in the current development version (nightly 4.0b8pre) from 3.6."
Read more »Amarok Celebrates Success, Announces Roktober Fundraiser
http://dot.kde.org –
In the last twelve months, we have made more than 4000 commits, closed over 4000 bugs, released 6 new versions of Amarok, written a Quick Start Guide to Amarok, attended over 10 conferences and had a big developer sprint in Switzerland. All of this, thanks to your donations!
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FSFE’s statement on the relation between standards and patents at WIPO SCP/15
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Software standards must be implementable in any software or business model, including those based on Free Software. When patents are included in software standards, they need to be licensed in a manner that doesn’t restrict their implementation in any way. Besides the absence of any other restriction, that means royalty-free licensing to any party implementing the standard.
Read more »Piracy and Free Software
http://mako.cc –
This essay is a summary of my presentation at the workshop Inlaws and Outlaws, held on August 19-20, 2010 in Split, Croatia. The workshop brought together advocates of piracy with participants in the free culture and free software movements.
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Kubuntu Linux 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Released
http://www.kubuntu.org –
The Kubuntu team is proud to announce the release of 10.10, the latest version of our popular Linux distribution. Kubuntu is one of the Ubuntu distributions and is based on KDE Software.
Read more »ZevenOS-Neptune 1.9 is ready
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We the ZevenOS Team are proud to announce the release of ZevenOS-Neptune 1.9. ZevenOS-Neptune is a ZevenOS Distro based fully upon Debian Squeeze, except for a newer kernel and some drivers.
Read more »Mercury releases OpenSAL - OSS version of scientific algorithm library
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Mercury Computer Systems, a trusted ISR subsystems provider, announced the availability of OpenSAL, an open source version of its award-winning Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL) for vector math acceleration. SAL is a high-throughput, low-latency signal processing library containing efficient algorithms with the fewest possible instructions and computing resources.
Read more »Funtoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org –
«Funtoo is a free operating system, based on Gentoo, and initiated in 2008 by Daniel Robbins in a collaborative effort with Gentoo community [...] Funtoo can be defined as a user-focused distribution, with a bazaar-style development model, where each hacker can make a difference. Hackers can have fun too due to the free software nature of the project.
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Software Freedom Conservancy appoints full-time executive director
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Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy, non-profit organization, which provides Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects with fiscal sponsorship, asset stewardship, license enforcement and license compliance services, announced the appointment of Bradley M. Kuhn as its full-time Executive Director.
Read more »Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency
http://www.bitcoin.org –
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network based digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network.
Bitcoin is an open source project created by Satoshi Nakamoto, and is currently in beta development stage. Bitcoin development is hosted at SourceForge.
Read more »GNU Solfege 3.18.1 release announcement
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Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. It is free software and runs on GNU/Linux and other systems with some effort with the required tools. It should run wherever you can run Python, Gtk+, PyGtk.
Read more »Free Software Foundation turns 25
http://news.slashdot.org –
On this day, 25 years ago, Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation. He had been the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Read more »FSFE Newsletter - October 2010
http://www.fsfe.org –
In this edition we discuss the misleading term "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (FRAND), we explain what we are doing about centralised computer systems and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and update you on our current campaign to end non-free software commercials by public institutions.
Read more »My day @ SVIT
http://sudeepkodavati.com –
«...The objective of the workshop is to introduce Free Software philosophy to the students and also give a brief knowledge regarding various programming languages, tools with a hands on lab experience...»
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